How Seneca Foods Corporation stacks up

SENEA · against 151 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

69/ 100

Above the middle of the pack.

Ranked #56 of 152 · scores higher than 62% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

14 peers with a profitability score of 60–69, including SENEA · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 69?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly thanks to its return on assets and return on invested capital, which are stronger than most Consumer Defensive peers.

Operating margin is close to the peer norm. Operating margin: 7.9% vs peer median 7.6%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 62% of peers. Return on invested capital: 11.1% vs peer median 7.7%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 87% of peers. Return on assets: 9.4% vs peer median 4.0%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = SENEA, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	SENEA	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 147 reported	11.1%	8.4%	59%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 153 reported	7.9%	5.9%	57%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 152 reported	9.4%	4.3%	82%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 144 reported	16.8%	10.2%	71%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 154 reported	13.4%	35.5%	12%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around SENEA

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Altria Group, Inc.MO · US-listed	128.5B USD	99	46
1	Philip Morris International Inc.PM · US-listed	324.2B USD	99	54
1	Phoenix Education Partners, Inc.PXED · US-listed	843M USD	99	88
4	The Vita Coco Company, Inc.COCO · US-listed	3.5B USD	98	73
5	National Beverage Corp.FIZZ · US-listed	3.4B USD	97	54
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50	G. Willi-Food International LtdWILC · US-listed	397M USD	71	72
54	Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLCCCEP · US-listed	49.0B USD	70	49
54	Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.NGVC · US-listed	644M USD	70	54
56	Lifeway Foods, Inc.LWAY · US-listed	336M USD	69	63
56	Seneca Foods CorporationSENEA · US-listed	1.0B USD	69	83
56	Turning Point Brands, Inc.TPB · US-listed	1.3B USD	69	66
59	Strategic Education, Inc.STRA · US-listed	1.6B USD	68	65
59	TAL Education GroupTAL · US-listed	5.5B USD	68	84
61	Target CorporationTGT · US-listed	70.1B USD	67	47

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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